![]() ![]() Universal executive Morris presided over an industry rich from the obscene profits generated by CD sales, until the secretive community of organised filesharers began to gouge huge chunks out of their balance sheets.Įminem at the MTV European Music Awards 2002: his albums were leaked online in the early 00s. Owing to the bitter internecine rivalries within acoustic engineering, no one recognised the scope of Brandenburg’s technology the inferior MP2 kept winning industry accolades and commercial applications. ![]() Brandenburg’s genius lay in shrinking sound files down so that they could easily be sent over the internet, back when most files were huge and modems still dialled up. The three men never met, but Witt reveals how their lives overlapped and irrevocably changed those of anyone who listens to music. ![]() How Music Got Free is in essence the gripping tale of three men: Karlheinz Brandenburg, the German scientist whose lab cobbled together the MP3 Doug Morris, the old-school record company executive who presided over the rap boom and began the fight-back against piracy and Bennie Lydell “Dell” Glover, the North Carolina CD pressing plant worker, whose light fingers and computer skills singlehandedly led to a haemorrhage of A-list rock and hip-hop releases – Eminem, Kanye West, Queens of the Stone Age, Björk – being freely available on the internet two weeks before release. ![]()
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